Çağla Büyükakçay

Çağla Büyükakçay
Büyükakçay 2019 in London
Nation:	Turkey
Birthday:	September 28, 1989
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	58 kg
1st professional season:	2004
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Can Uner
Prize money:	$ 1,015,950
singles
Career record:	399: 335
Career title:	1 WTA , 9 ITF
Highest ranking:	60 (September 12, 2016)
Current placement:	262
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	157: 144
Career title:	0 WTA, 14 ITF
Highest ranking:	111 (February 29, 2016)
Current placement:	1340
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: August 19, 2019
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Çağla Büyükakçay (born September 28, 1989 in Adana ) is a Turkish tennis player .

Career

Büyükakçay mainly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit . She was in the final of an ITF tournament 22 times and won nine titles. She has already played 25 finals in doubles and won 14 titles. She also won the Mediterranean Games tennis competition in 2009 and 2013 .

In 2010, Büyükakçay was the first Turkish player to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament at the US Open . On April 24, 2016, she defeated Danka Kovinić in the final of Istanbul with 3: 6, 6: 2 and 6: 3. She became the first Turkish player to win a WTA tournament and reached position 82 in the world rankings . In July she improved again to position 67, after she qualified for a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the French Open after 20 unsuccessful attempts (three times she was only missing one win to move into the main field) (the out came in round two); for Wimbledon she was directly qualified, but failed in round one.

In April 2004, she competed in Marsa against Romania for the first time for Turkey in the Fed Cup . In the meantime, she has already played 62 Fed Cup games, in which she celebrated 34 wins.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	June 3, 2007	Istanbul	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Ria Dörnemann	6: 4, 6: 3
2.	August 8, 2008	Gaziantep	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Pemra Özgen	7: 5, 6: 4
3.	June 30, 2009	Istanbul	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Galina Fokina	6: 2, 6: 3
4th	May 9, 2010	Kharkiv	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Natallia Orlova	6: 4, 6: 1
5.	July 11, 2010	Valladolid	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Zhang Ling	7: 6 2 , 6: 3
6th	5th April 2014	Edgbaston	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Pauline Parmentier	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 2
7th	September 12, 2015	Batumi	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Alyona Tarasova	6: 2, 6: 0
8th.	November 14, 2015	Dubai	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Klára Koukalová	6: 7 4 , 6: 4, 6: 4
9.	April 24, 2016	Istanbul	WTA International	sand	Danka Kovinić	3: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
10.	3rd June 2018	Grado	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Martina Di Giuseppe	6: 2, 6: 2
11.	August 25, 2019	Braunschweig	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Katharina Gerlach	6: 4, 6: 2

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	May 21, 2006	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Alena Bajartschyk	Galina Semenova Tatsiana Teterina	6: 3, 7: 6 3
2.	June 2, 2007	Istanbul	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Ria Dörnemann	Maja Kambić Avgusta Zybysheva	6: 2, 6: 4
3.	May 31, 2008	Gaziantep	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Pemra Özgen	Wolha Duko Ana Jikia	2-0 task
4th	June 7, 2008	Izmir	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Pemra Özgen	Emilia Arnaudovska Julijana Umanets	6: 2, 6: 0
5.	December 6, 2008	Vinaròs	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Lucia Sainz-Pelegri	Yera Campos Molina Leticia Costas-Moreira	6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7]
6th	April 18, 2009	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	Hard court	Pemra Özgen	Tetjana Arefjewa Anastassija Lytovchenko	6: 4, 6: 2
7th	October 17, 2009	Antalya	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Albina Xabibulina	Amanda Carreras Valentina Confalonieri	2: 6, 7: 5, [10: 7]
8th.	October 24, 2011	Netanya	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Pemra Özgen	Nicole Clerico Julia Glushko	7: 5, 6: 3
9.	October 29, 2012	Istanbul	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Pemra Özgen	Nigina Abduraimova Xenia Palkina	6: 2, 6: 1
10.	21st September 2013	Shrewsbury	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Pemra Özgen	Samantha Murray Jade Windley	4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8]
11.	September 28, 2013	Loughborough	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Pemra Özgen	Magda Linette Tereza Smitková	6: 2, 5: 7, [10: 6]
12.	1. November 2013	Istanbul	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court (hall)	Pemra Özgen	Sopia Schapatawa Anastasija Wassyljewa	6: 3, 6: 2
13.	December 21, 2013	Ankara	ITF $ 50,000	Hard court (hall)	Julija Bejhelsymer	Eleni Daniilidou Aleksandra Krunić	6: 3, 6: 3
14th	November 14, 2015	Dubai	ITF $ 75,000	Hard court	Maria Sakkari	Elise Mertens İpek Soylu	7: 6 6 , 6: 4

Web links

Commons : Çağla Büyükakçay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Çağla Büyükakçay (English)
• ITF profile of Çağla Büyükakçay (English)
• Fed Cup Stats Çağla Büyükakçay (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BUYUKAKCAY CAPS HISTORIC WEEK IN ISTANBUL. In: wtatennis.com. April 24, 2016, accessed April 24, 2016 . 
2. ↑ FedCup, Cagla BUYUKAKCAY , accessed September 6, 2014